General Hospital Wins Best Drama At Daytime Emmys
It’s wild that there are still three soaps on network television (General Hospital, Bold And The Beautiful, Young And The Restless), and you have to wonder who the audience is. Do housewives and stay-at-home moms still exist? Maybe so. Throw in a sprinkling of gays, and there’s your audience, I guess. The 51st annual Daytime Emmys were last night, and here’s the list of winners:
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: ACTOR: Robert Gossett as Marshall Ashford, General Hospital
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: ACTRESS: Courtney Hope as Sally Spectra, The Young and the Restless
WRITING TEAM FOR A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: General Hospital
BEST GUEST PERFORMANCE IN A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: Dick Van Dyke, Days of Our Lives
DIRECTING TEAM FOR A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: General Hospital
CULINARY SERIES: Be My Guest with Ina Garten, Food Network
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS SERIES: Entertainment Tonight
DAYTIME PERSONALITY – DAILY: Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner, Matt Cohen, Cassie DiLaura, Denny Directo, Will Marfuggi, Rachel Smith, Entertainment Tonight
DAYTIME TALK SERIES HOST: Mark Consuelos, Kelly Ripa, Live with Kelly and Mark
LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: ACTOR: Thorsten Kaye as Ridge Forrester,
The Bold and the Beautiful
LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: ACTRESS: Michelle Stafford as Phyllis Summers, The Young and the Restless
In addition to the competitive categories, they gave out “Gold Circle Honors” to soap vets who’ve been entertaining audiences for 50 years, and the three recipients this year were Suzanne Rogers (Maggie Horton, Days Of Our Lives), A Martinez (Cruz Castillo, Santa Barbara), and Jerome Dobson, the co-creator and executive producer of Santa Barbara. As a Santa Barbara stan growing up, this would’ve been a huge night for 11-year-old me to see the show’s co-creator and its leading man being honored. The greatest soap opera of all time, Santa Barbara was the first program to win Best Drama three times in a row when it took the top prize in 1988, 1989, and 1990. The show redefined the medium and often used meta comedy to poke fun at itself and the genre, while also introducing traditional super-couples like Cruz and Eden.
This might be of interest to like three (two?) people reading this, but watch the video below, and you’ll see how the acting and writing was far and away better than anything else on at the time. The clip shows Cruz and Eden at the peak of their popularity during one of their major storylines in 1989, when they were breaking up due to another man from Eden’s past named Robert Barr. Don’t worry, they ended up getting back together, but then Eden developed a split personality as a jewel thief and left the show a few years later. Actors A Martinez and Marcy Walker, who both won Emmys for their roles:
